Old Time Tales
Title | Old Time Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Lawton Bryan Evans |
Publisher | |
Pages | 360 |
Release | 1922 |
Genre | Adventure stories |
ISBN |
My Book of Old-time Fairy Tales
Title | My Book of Old-time Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 120 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Fairy tales |
ISBN | 9781566197656 |
My book of Old-Time Fairy Tales invites readers into a magical world filled with heroes and heroines, elves and fairies, princes and orges. These seventeen stories will delight both children and adults.
Old-Time Stories
Title | Old-Time Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Шарль Перро |
Publisher | Litres |
Pages | 152 |
Release | 2021-12-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 5040828683 |
Perrault's Fairy Tales
Title | Perrault's Fairy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Perrault |
Publisher | BookRix |
Pages | 133 |
Release | 2014-06-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 3736817975 |
Perrault's Fairy Tales was originaly written in 1697 by Charles Perrault. He was a French author and member of the Académie française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The Thirty Four Illustrations by Gustave Dore from the 'Volume Les Contes de Perrault Dessins' by Gustave Dore, 1867. The best known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots) and La Barbe bleue (Bluebeard). Many of Perrault's stories were rewritten by the Brothers Grimm, continue to be printed and have been adapted to opera, ballet (such as Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty), theatre, and film (Disney). Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th century French literary scene, and was the leader of the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.
Sleepyheads
Title | Sleepyheads PDF eBook |
Author | Sandra J. Howatt |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 2014-05-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1442446781 |
Get ready for bed with this soothing sleepy story—now available as a Classic Board Book! The sun has set, and sleepyheads all across the land are tucked into their cozy beds. Rabbit is snoozing in the weeds, and Duck is snuggled in the reeds. Bear is nestled in his cave, and Otter is rocking on a wave. But there’s one little sleepyhead who’s not in his bed. Where, oh where, could he be? This sweet and snuggly bedtime book with irresistible illustrations by Joyce Wan is the perfect read-aloud story to prepare little ones for a cozy night’s sleep.
Old-time Stories
Title | Old-time Stories PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Perrault |
Publisher | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 2017-09-10 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781976277511 |
The eleven tales which the present volume com prises, the first eight are from the master - hand of Charles Perrault. Charles Perrault (1628-1703) enjoyed much distinction in his day, and is familiar to students of French literature for the prominent part that he played in the famous Quarrel of the Ancients and Modems, which so keenly occupied French men of letters in the latter part of the seventeenth century. The sleeping beauty in the wood -- Puss in boots -- Little Tom Thumb -- The fairies -- Ricky of the tuft -- Cinderella -- Little Red Riding Hood -- Blue Beard -- Beauty and the beast -- The friendly frog -- Princess Rosette.
True Tales of Old-time Kansas
Title | True Tales of Old-time Kansas PDF eBook |
Author | David Dary |
Publisher | |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
'Rollicking, adventurous, touching. Whether the reader invests only a few minutes at a time or finishes the book at one sitting, he is in for a lot of fun.' - American West'Fascinating tales set down succinctly and excitingly. There are stories of lost treasure and sudden riches, of outlaws and sheriffs, of massacres and heroics.' - Kansas City Times'A fun book. Where else but in the frontier West were such stories really lived?' - Richard Bartlett, author of Great Surveys of the American West and The New Country: A Social History of the American Frontier